Root and branch: the place of the Portuguese Jesuits in the early modern China missions / Tomás Pereira and the Jesuits of the court of the Kangxi Emperor / Father Tomás Pereira, SJ, the Kangxi Emperor and the court westerners / The image of Tomás Pereira in Qing Dynasty documents / From the earthly court to the heavenly court: the death and funeral of Tomás Pereira / The last imperial honours: from Tomás Pereira to the Eulogium europeorum doctorum in 1711 / 'Amicíssimos', Tomás Pereira and Zhao Chang / The Fô and the Xekiâ: Tomás Pereira's critical description of Chinese Buddhism / Ubi dux, ibi curia: Kangxi's imperial hunts and the Jesuits as courtiers / 'Riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms': the last memorial (27 January 1688) of Ferdinand Verbiest / The 'edict of tolerance': a textual history and reading / Tomás Pereira's appeal to the Portuguese Jesuits and missionary recruitment to China / Ferdinand Verbiest's letter of 1678 to King Afonso VI of Portugal and the possible role of Tomás Pereira in its conception / Defending European astronomy in China ... against Europe: Tomás Pereira and the Directorate of Astronomy in 1688 / Resolution of some questions about Tomás Pereira's arrival in Beijing and service at the Directorate of Astronomy / Seventeenth-century Jesuit surveys for a secure overland route from Europe to China / The Jesuits at Nerchinsk: language, war, and ethnicity / Tomás Pereira at the Nerchinsk conference / Tomás Pereira, Jing Tian and Nerchinsk: evolving world-view during the Kangxi period / Mission by music: the challenge of translating European music into Chinese in the Lülü Zuanyao / The organist and organ builder Tomás Pereira: some new data on his activity